Rita Goodson

GRENADA – Rita Margaret Gordin Goodson, 62, died Thursday, April 4, 2013, at Grenada Lake Medical Center. She was born April 21, 1950, in Greenwood to Dennis Gordin Jr. and Ina McLemore Gordin. She was a retired registered nurse for Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis. A former resident of Derma, she was a member of Derma Baptist Church.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Pryor Funeral Home Chapel in Calhoun City. Bro. Danny Spratlin will officiate. Burial will be in New Gauley Cemetery in Calhoun City.

She is survived by two sisters, Melissa Alexander of Oxford and Sharon Harrison of Antioch, Ill.; one brother, Dennis E. Gordin III of Taylors, S.C.; a special friend, Jimmy Ross of Grenada.

She was preceded in death by her first husband, Jack Goodson; her second husband, David Goodson; a niece, Cynthia Harrison; and her parents.

Pallbearers include Marshall Alexander, William Alexander and Michael Joe Cannon.